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Amoeblog posts marked with labor day.On Labor Day, Get a $10 Gift Certificate for Spending $60 or More at Amoeba<p>
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Sept. 1 is <strong>Labor Day</strong>, which means maybe you have the day off. What to do?</p>
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Head to any Amoeba store on Monday, Sept. 1, and spend $60 and you&rsquo;ll <strong>get a $10 gift certificate to Amoeba</strong>, which can be used starting the next day, Sept. 2. That&rsquo;s like a whole <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/cd-and-vinyl/#/format[24]-24/" target="_blank">cassette</a>. Or <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/cd-and-vinyl/#/format[17]-17" target="_blank">7&rdquo;</a>. Or <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/circle-logo-silver/merch/2/" target="_blank">shirt</a>. For FREE.</p>
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The fine print: offer excludes gift certificate and ticket purchases (cannot be used toward the $60); it&rsquo;s limited to one per customer, per day; no coupons applied (but trade credits are ok!) and it&rsquo;s for all three stores but not Amoeba.com.</p>
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$10 Free. It&rsquo;s better than a BBQ! &nbsp;</p>
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Fri, 29 Aug 2014 01:21:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2014/08/pst/on-labor-day-get-a-10-gift-certificate-for-spending-60-or-more-at-amoeba.htmlProg Rock CD Collection Hits Amoeba SF & Berkeley on Labor Day Weekend<p>
We recently acquired a a massive Prog Rock CD collection and we&#39;re rolling it out at <strong>Amoeba San Francisco</strong> &amp; <strong>Amoeba Berkeley</strong> on Friday, August 29, just in time for Labor Day weekend! Hundreds of rare import titles from Italy, Japan, Germany, France &amp; Netherlands and lots of reissues on the Mellow and Musea labels. Get to our Bay Area stores early &#39;cause they won&#39;t last long!</p>
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Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:26:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2014/08/people-s-republic-of-northern-california/prog-rock-cd-collection-hits-amoeba-sf-berkeley-on-labor-day-weekend.html(In which Job returns from [kind of a] vacation.)<div align="justify">
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Honey! I&rsquo;m home&hellip;!<br />
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[Kiss.]<br />
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Whew! It is crazy hot here in Hollywood. How have you survived? I&rsquo;m this close to envying the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party">Donner Party</a>.<br />
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[Sets luggage down.]<br />
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Where have I been? Didn&rsquo;t you see the <a href="http://romynmichele.tripod.com/">Post-It note</a> I left on our autographed portrait of <a href="http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/360.htm">Gunnar de Frumerie</a>?<br />
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No?<br />
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What do you mean you were struck blind by the <a href="http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/pics6/funway/funwayTN/_jr-bob-dobbs.html">Lord Our God</a> while traveling the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_Damascus">Road to Damascus</a>? Are you crazy?<br />
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Yes, I know Labor Day traffic on I-5 is maddening, but I hardly think a detour through Syria was good idea. And anyhow, I wrote the note in Braille, so that&rsquo;s no excuse for not reading it.<br />
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[Takes off shoes and unbuttons shirt.]<br />
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Anyway, I don&rsquo;t want to fight.<br />
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I&rsquo;ve been in Santa Barbara over the weekend. I was at a wedding for some of Corey&rsquo;s friends. It was hot there, too, but at least we were on the coast, so it was beautiful.<br />
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Oh, a funny thing happened that continues a strange theme in my recent blogs. One of the humans attending the wedding was <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818055/">Octavia Spencer</a> &ndash; a total sparkplug, very quick with the one-liners &ndash; and, as she was introduced to my small group, she lowered her sunglasses at me and said:<br />
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&ldquo;Whoa! You have some pretty eyes! Hoo!&rdquo;<br />
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Which makes two times this week that an obscure female comedian has commented on my optical globes. I know, right? What exactly are my <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheromones">pheromones</a> excreting? Too funny.<br />
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Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:31:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2007/09/another-witty-and-unnecessary-blog/-in-which-job-returns-from-kind-of-a-vacation-.htmlDay After Day After Day After Labor Day - Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White3 <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/september/page1.html">September</a></strong> is <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/labor-day/page1.html"><strong>Labor Da</strong><strong>y</strong></a>. Everyone else in the world celebrates on 1 <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/may/page1.html">May</a></strong>. In <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/april/page1.html">April</a> </strong>of 1856, stonemasons in <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/melbourne/page1.html">Melbourne</a></strong> protested in favor of the work day being reduced to 8 hours as suggested by the <strong>8 Hour Movement</strong> (8 for rest, 8 for work, 8 for leisure). Previously, working 16 hours per day, 6 days per week was perfectly normal.<br />
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On 1 May, 1886 over 400,000 workers protested in favor of the adoption of the eight-hour-workday in the <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/usa/page1.html">US</a></strong>.&nbsp;Government troops responded by opening fire, killing seven in <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/milwaukee/page1.html">Milwaukee</a></strong>, followed by the <strong>Haymarket Riots</strong> in <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/chicago/page1.html">Chicago</a></strong>&nbsp;three days later. There, a cop was killed and at least 4 workers as well when violence flared up between cops, scabs and protestors. Eight activists associated with the rally were sentenced to death. One commited suicide in his cell and four others were hanged. In 1893 the eight were pardoned. Of course, most had been dead for six years, so...<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><img height="145" width="95" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Eric_B/394px-Albert_Parsons_portrait.jpg" alt="" />&nbsp;<img height="145" width="102" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Eric_B/420px-August_Spies_portrait.jpg" alt="" />&nbsp;<img height="145" width="103" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Eric_B/425px-Adolph_Fischer_portrait.jpg" alt="" />&nbsp;<img height="145" width="123" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Eric_B/509px-Louis_Lingg_portrait.jpg" alt="" />&nbsp;<img height="145" width="123" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Eric_B/510px-George_Engel_portrait.jpg" alt="" /></div>
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So, taking a page from the <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/christianity/page1.html">Christian Church</a></strong>, which successfully co-opted countless heathen<img height="178" width="125" align="right" alt="" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Eric_B/422px-Grover_Cleveland_Portrait.jpg" /> holidays by re-branding them feast days and religious observations (e.g. <strong><a href="https://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/easter/page1.html">Easter</a></strong>... in which a breeding rabbit carries eggs that symbolize... <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/jesus/page1.html">Jesus</a></strong>, and his, uh, hatching from the tomb-metaphorically speaking); Labor Day in the US was moved to September and became an end-of-summer holiday where observers have their last grill-outs of the year.<br />
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Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:18:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2007/08/eric-s-blog/day-after-day-after-day-after-labor-day-sometimes-good-guys-don-t-wear-white.html